Chapter2

#Chapter2

There can be no companion better than a BROTHER

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There can be no friend better than a SISTER.

/"for whom?/"

/"For him/" hearing Varun’s voice coming from my back, turned to see a man of my brother's age, taller than Varun by roughly two inches looking handsome beside him, smiling at me genuinely, I smiled back at him, giving a pointed look towards Varun to introduce before I questioned awkwardly.

''Guys, this is Seshwant and Seshwant, this is ketu, preeti, bhanu, and u know the guys right?/" Varun pointed each of us at our name.

/"nice to meet you all! Yes, I know them. Do you guys still remember me?/" He asked the last part looking at Nadan and Gokul.

/"still remembering /" Nadan and Gokul said smiling at each other.

Me, preeti, bhanu said /"nice to meet you too/"

/"Finally I get to meet you, ketu./"He said, making me realise we met, I smiled at him too saying /"yeah! Finally, we can give a sketch to the person we know?/"

/"agreed!/"

/"Come on let's get to our screen, it’s 1.15 /" Varun knocked us out of our conversation and we all started towards the screen,

I got a practice to have popcorn and a cool drink with me from the starting of the flim to the end as I forgot to buy it, Nadan and I went to buy it for Nadan, preeti and I, they both wanted as they didn't take their breakfast and were hungry.

We bought one large butter popcorns for everyone, I bought cold coffee and one large popcorn for me, and Madan brought a hot coffee and burger for him, we bought an apple juice and a chicken sandwich for preeti.

Naan said he will collect food and come, asking me to flavour our popcorn. Adding the favours, tried to shake and mix the popcorn with some spilling out of the bag

I found nadan near me hissing ‘idiot’, as he took the popcorn bag from me,

I looked around at people watching me to look away as not knowing how to shake popcorn like a master doesn’t make me an idiot.

He covered the bag top taking the tissue paper from the side to give a shake. Okay! I should have used the tissues, still I just tried to save papers and maintain an ecosystem.........

I will stop as he gave me the token to collect our food as our number came on the pick screen. As we got, we went to where our gang is and I gave Preeti her juice and sandwich, and nadan gave the popcorn to Varun for the guys to share and We entered our screen on time as the movie certificate popped up on the screen.

I stood last to make everyone have their seat to safeguard my popcorn and coffee to not spill, thinking I will have a seat in the middle but they left me to the last. Rolling my eyeballs, though they can’t see me in the dark, I passed preeti, bhanu, Gokul, varun, sesh, nadan to take my seat, as we got settled they started the film after the credentials

As the movie get into track after fifteen minutes, two men came with the tickets for the two empty seats beside me,

I moved towards Nathan as the guys sat wihout manners, I really have never encountered people like this in theatres that lack common sense, nadan asked them to learn public manners, exchanged the seat with me, as the stupid idiot one next to me made attempts to touch me, they become silent after my brothers gave them a glare and we watched the movie with peace.

During the interval, I ordered a milkshake and nuggets as my popcorn and coffee are taken from me by sesh, varun, not hearing that I don’t want to share it.

Bhanu, preeti wanted to use restroom, Nadan said he wants to use too that they left with Varun, Gokul to go buy our snacks, standing in the Queue, sesh stayed back with me to guard our seats and belongings

Sesh is good to talk with, I smiled as he was actually jealous with my brother that he has a little sister, while he don’t have one to annoy, making me accept that he can be my bro too but with one condition, that I will call him with his name only not to expect too much formalities and respect from me, he is more than fine with it as long as he gets rights to annoy me like my brothers does. What have I signed in for?

/"deal?/" he showed his hand for a shake.

/"I guess,the deal is sealed/" I smiled, shook my hands with him.

/"Yes, sealed/"

Everyone came back with their snacks in their hands And seated in their respective seats...

/"what is sealed?/" Varun asked in confusion as he gave the snacks to Sesh.

/"our agreement/" I said pointing to sesh and I as it’s a top secret

/"What agreement Marie curie?/" Nadan dipped the words with sarcasm as he hands my snacks

/"Our deal Einstein /" Sesh joined me, we both laughed at Varun and nadan's angry faces.

I told said them, that varun patted sesh back while nadan gave a handshake, with a eye contact varun and nadan; at the same time both said to sesh

/"welcome to the hell of being ketu's brother/"

And before, I understand sesh joined hands with them asking /"should I feel honored or worried?/"

/"definitively ...../" I didn't let Nadan complete the sentence as punched him and scolded everyone, blessed them with my silent treatment.

We missed some of the movie, as we didn't notice that the movie started until Gokul asked us to be silent, the movie was okay.

We left the restroom and walked straight to the restroom, to get set.

Bhanu braided my hair, since I don’t braid well, Preeti left free hair with a center clutch while Bhanu secured her hair together with a band and both let it float as they have short hair not like me long hair, Having a Touch up, we went out.

Sesh, nadan, varun, gokul were waiting for us, pointed time is 2.45p.m, now. We looked out at the shops we wanted to visit, since none of us ate hungry, we decided to walk around the mall and planned to meet in a food court by five, dividing it girls and boys team.

We first went to health and glow, As I am in need of a lip balm, as my lips are drying up in the air conditioner making me feel thirsty. I bought a sunscreen lotion, a lip balm and a body spray for me and others bought what they wanted. After applying the lip balm, I felt my lips are getting back to their moisture. I can share my eyeliner and compact powders too but not the lip cares, carelessness of me to miss while packing. I really felt envious of the girls that didn’t get a habit like me to carry a lip balm always. I just don't know why the hell I want it when I don’t even care to have puff perfume on me, most of the time.

We went around different shops and after a long trail, I bought two tops and with endless consideration bought a pair of earrings and happily bought a shoe as preethi opted out as her size is not available.

/"time is 4.45p.m, we got to wrap up!/" Bhanu reminded us.

/"Okay! I got what I want./" Preethi said as she checked her bags, to see whether she missed anything.

/"I am good too, but we got to stop at the big bazaar /"they nodded.

/"what are you going to buy there?/" Bhanu asked as we walked to the shop.

/"Nothing, just want to keep this on the bag counter because, I don't want to carry these thing while roaming and we can fool that we didn't buy anything and just done window shopping, which may be hard for them to believe but would be fun while those idiots carry their bag and roam with us, isn’t it?/" As I don't want to give them the chance to tell us crazy shopping maniacs, while we have our goods safe here and can collect when we leave. They winked and accepted me.

we went to the food court to see, we were first to reach, after a few minutes, we saw them coming with free hands. If I know my brothers well, they just would have just played some arcade games or found a place to pass time being lazily, wouldn’t have tried to even check a shirt, as soon as they saw us they walked towards us. Varun looked at my hands as if he can’t believe to see my hands free of bags.

/"You girls didn't buy anything? And were even earlier than us?/" Sesh asked with a confused or admiring face as we nodded for his second question. /"Great!/" We girls saw each other's faces and gave a blank face and tried not to laugh at sesh or at all

/"You girls usually have dozens of bags in your hands and are always late.../" giving a confused face as if he finds something wrong.

/"Where my shopping manic patients were cured?/" Nadan asked.

/"I see, Just like others, You girls shop big? then what happened today to be different ?/" Sesh asked and after trying hard to not laugh, I pulled a Blank face.

/"hey! we are also girls, not a different species, it’s just we didn't want anything, didn't buy anything,

And We are not shopping maniacs./" I said looking at nadan.

/"you are/"

/"We are not and even if so, We couldn’t get a treatment from Mr. boring shopper./" Preethi said that Bahanu and I gave her a hifi and laughed at him

/"Even if u come, I won't treat you shopping maniac sisters./"

/"I know Nadan, you are not talented enough to handle your own mental problems, we don't want you to get depressed about that, isn't bhanu?/"

/"Yes, Nadan. Don't worry, just put in a little effort and you can learn …../" bhanu joined me.

/"hey! Stop it girls, I am ..../"I cut him.

/"I understand you need help, Nadan. I am here for you and even every says no, I will tutor you, bro/"

/"I don't ....../"I didn't made him finish his line again

/"we understand you Nadan, you are better than varun so don't worry man../"

/"Yeah! I am better than ...../" Even Varun couldn’t get to complete his sentence as bhanu cut him.

/"Varun, she is just comforting Nadan, you know who is better yourself well. Can’t you see he is depressed?/" Varun was about to nod, seeing nadan glaring at him to not dare nod at us, he understood we are trapping them to go down as preethi asked us.

/"We will say you are better than Nadan when you are depressed, okay?/"

/"obviously! why don't you join with Nadan,Varun. So it will lessen the time for us to teach you guys?/"

/"Bhanu is right! because I and bhanu are not in position to help you, only left ketu. Get her help soon before she gets occupied too./"

Nadan and varun /"STOPPPP IT../" Said little loudly earning nearby people attention.

That’s it! I can't hold back my laugh, laughed out and the other two joined me too. Unable to cover us anymore, We wrapped the drama.

/"A revert to 'welcome to the hell being ketu's brother', how is it?/"

I said, pulled the person beside me to hide me, which happened to sesh, who got the hit from a crushed paper bill thrown by nadan, which is supposed to hit me.

/"what is that for ?/" Asked Nadan

/"Revert to the 'should I be honoured or worried', how is it?/" I replied sesh, I ran inside the food court and sat on the table.

I am right now praying to god to help me as their scheming eyes don't look good as they came to the table itself, in that Varun sat to my right, Nadan to my left and Sesh across me, with preethi and bhanu between Varun and Sesh, Gokul between Nadan and Sesh.

When they were being silent, I shouldn’t have gotten relaxed, Nadan pulled my hair, I turned to react, Sesh kicked my leg and Varun spilled the water on my lap without giving me time to process.

/"Great!/" I clenched my anger and got up to leave to washroom.

Nadan-/"how /"

Varun-/"is/"

Sesh-/"our/"

Nadan, varun, sesh-/"REVERT/"

They laughed at my expenses, only pushed me to Look around, seeing The ketchup in front of me, taking it squeezed in their shirts And Moved away, smirking at them replied /"like how you feel/"

They looked at me unbelievably,

Preethi, bhanu laughed as Gokul cursed /"what the hell/" to let us know I mistakenly designed his shirt with sauce too.

Sesh took a green sauce near him in hand, bhanu took it before he could squeeze on me, /"sesh, no! It won’t look good for her to walk with stains./"reprimanded him.

They went to clean the sauce as it will leave stain, people are giving us a look and some laughed on seeing them.

They came after half an hour later and by now my bottom got dried but their shirts are still wet and their luck they all wore white or light colour based shirts, which is showing the sauce stain just when you look deeper. They gave me a pointed look saying it's not over seeing, I sat between Bhanu and Preeti, I literally begged them to sit like this. Before they could even reach the table, A man reached them and spoke to them.

/"who is he and what did he say to you guys?/" Preethi asked as they reached the table.

/"Manager of the food court, Asked us to not make any more drama, if we try, we will be kicked out./"

We all said oh...

/"For now, I don't want many dramas either, as my stomach pains from laughing a lot And I am damn hungry!/" We agreed with Bhanu.

/"What can we buy? Say your choices./"

As soon as Varun asked, with no delay, as I am a great fan of cold coffee and kfc chicken, I started

/"café frappe with.../" just try get to finish my order as everyone expect Sesh chorused

/"Noooooo../"

/"what is the problem with frappe?/" Sesh asked.

/"It’s her regular order frappe and kfc chicken, Won’t you get bored...?/"

/"It is my favorite and I don't have kfc and CCD in my place.../" I made a point to Nadan.

/"leave her, you order what you want or since you had cold coffee already better you try something else of their choice and I will TREAT you to that, Sunday/" I liked the offer of Bhanu.

/"seriously?/"

/"pakka /"

/"Then, It’s our choice people. Since I don’t get to order, I don't share the money as I am just going to taste your meal./"

/"That’s not fair, You need to give your share.../"

/"Leave it, I pay for her and I will get double the amount from dad/" Varun smiles innocently, Nadan gave him a Hifi.

/"No, I will put my share and you don't get extra money./"

/"Guys, it's already 6.45 p.m and We are really hungry, I don’t want to break my diet!!!/" Preethi said, making us all silent.

/"Since it’s already dinner time, anyhow varun and ketu are coming to have dinner with us, why don't you guys join us too?/"

Uncle Ram invited us again for dinner as I missed breakfast.

Everyone said no and us to you carry on that they are not coming, then with a little more persistent try, Seshconvinced everybody and made them come to his house for dinner and have a night over too.

We had a few lite snacks to calm our hunger and sustain until we reached his house as it happens to be an hour ride from here.

As we were about to go to the parking lot, We told the guys that we wanted to use the restroom, left and on the way collected our bags, then met the guys at the parking lot.

We smiled at the epic faces of guys Seeing us coming towards them with the bags In our hand.

/"Did you buy these things within fifteen minutes?/" Nadan Asked unsurely as we can’t even pick a dress to trail in fifteen minutes.

/"oh!/" Varun sounded hearing what happened.

/" this is your idea?/" I nodded to Gokul.

/"Maybe, you shouldn’t lose the opportunity to learn from her idiots./" Gokul got a punch back from Varun and Nadan for pulling their legs.

/"At least they can get better with help, poor you brother!/" Bhanu for a dramatic effect, whipped her unshed tears from both the eyes, making us all laugh at Gokul.

/" Varun and Nadan, don't worry guys, you both are better than Gokul./" Preethi said.

/" seriously?/" Gokul asked that all boys stayed together as they are not dragging this game of us making them idiots.

Preeti looked at bhanu and I, getting the message, as she nod we all said/" SERIOUSLY/", muffling a laugh.

/"Hope you guys would give me a call, if you are again doing a hangout like this, It's SERIOUSLY fun./" We looked at him smiling genuinely.

/"Ofcourse, how could I miss one of my brothers on 'my brother sister hangout day/" I smiled meaning it.

/"thanks!/"

Everyone said the same how they enjoyed it and they will never forgot to invite the new brother and he thanked everyone

Since it takes time, My cousins agreed to stay in sesh house after dinner too with us as anyway tomorrow is Sunday leave, so that in need of clothes tonight, I asked a Preethi to get me one to save a trip to our home as Varun made me to choose between sleeping in same dress or asking for a rent from them as he got to go with the guys as they all don’t know the way to Sesh home.

Guys took the girls, to bring them out for a stay over as their hostel won’t leave girls to stay away from the hostel after 10 in night, without a proper permission. They will call their parents to ask if it is okay and want the person taking her out to sign in for the night out pass.

Gokul and Bhanu went to Bhanu hostel on the bike they came, while preethi, nadan and Varun went to preethi hostel in Nadan’s car. Varun asked Gokul to meet up at some middle point and said Sesh to take me home with him.

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